Donald Dillbeck was sent to death row after he was convicted of the 1990 murder of Faye Lamb Vann in a Tallahassee mall parking lot. He is scheduled to be executed tonight. Here's our updated coverage.
is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. ET tonight at Florida State Prison after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute petition by Dillbeck's attorneys on Wednesday.
Dillbeck's attorneys argued that he should be shielded from execution because of a neurological condition caused by being exposed to alcohol before his birth. Dillbeck's biological mother drank as much as a case of beer a day during her pregnancy, according tocoverage of his trial. She continued to abuse him until, at 4 ½, he was taken into foster care. A couple adopted him as their only child when he was 6.
Dillbert, now 59, was sent to death row after he was convicted of the 1990 murder of Faye Lamb Vann in a Tallahassee mall parking lot. At the time of the murder, Dillbeck had escaped from a work-release catering job in Gadsden County, where he was serving a life sentence for killing
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